{"id":649226,"date":"2019-07-03T12:36:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T12:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Baffoe Bonnie and Tetteh Tevie<\/strong><br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\njudge in the case of some former Board Members of National Communications\nAuthority (NCA), and a businessman accused of causing financial loss to the\nstate has admonished d"},"modified":"2019-07-03T12:36:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T12:36:01","slug":"judge-warns-lawyers-for-nca-ex-board-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/03\/judge-warns-lawyers-for-nca-ex-board-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Warns Lawyers For NCA Ex-Board Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Baffoe Bonnie and Tetteh Tevie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\njudge in the case of some former Board Members of National Communications<br \/>\nAuthority (NCA), and a businessman accused of causing financial loss to the<br \/>\nstate has admonished defence lawyers to attach \u2018seriousness\u2019 to the defence of<br \/>\ntheir clients. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn<br \/>\nyour defence of the accused persons, I\u2019ll urge you to be serious with<br \/>\neverything in terms of applications filed,\u201dJustice Eric Kyei Baffuor urged the<br \/>\nlawyers. <\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nstatement comes at the back of another fresh application for stay of<br \/>\nproceedings filed by lawyer for Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie, a former Board Chairman<br \/>\nof the NCA, which was dismissed by the court. <\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nlawyer had filed the fresh application praying the court to stay its<br \/>\nproceedings pending an appeal of its ruling on a submission of no case filed by<br \/>\nthe lawyer. <\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nother lawyers also filed similar applications urging the trial court to stay<br \/>\nits proceedings pending the appeal of certain aspects of the rulings but all of<br \/>\nthose applications were dismissed by Justice Kyei Baffuor.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nfour former board members then proceeded to the Court of Appeal for an order on<br \/>\nthe trial court to stay its proceedings. <\/p>\n<p>Mr.<br \/>\nBaffoe-Bonnie\u2019s application at the Court of Appeal was in respect of an appeal<br \/>\nagainst the trial judge\u2019s admission of three of his police caution statements<br \/>\nin which he allegedly confessed that all the accused persons had benefitted \u2018financially\u2019<br \/>\nin the purchase of the Pegasus equipment for counter terrorism assignments. <\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nCourt of Appeal, however, dismissed all the applications seeking to stay the<br \/>\nproceedings and they were asked to return to the High Court to open their<br \/>\ndefence as had earlier been ordered by the trial court. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Fresh Move<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abu<br \/>\nJuan, lawyer for Mr. Baffoe-Bonnie, then filed another stay of proceedings<br \/>\npending the determination of his appeal in respect of the submission of no<br \/>\ncase. <\/p>\n<p>Moving<br \/>\nthe motion, he said the appeal raised serious legal issues and has a chance of<br \/>\nsuccess.<\/p>\n<p>He<br \/>\nadded that the pace at which the proceedings at the trial court are moving is<br \/>\nsuch that if the proceedings of the court are not stayed and the appeal is<br \/>\ndetermined in favour of his client, it will have a direct effect on all the<br \/>\nproceedings before the determination of the appeal. <\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\njudge dismissed the application describing it as \u201ca manifest attempt to delay<br \/>\nthe trial and an abuse of the court processes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\njudge then ordered Mr. Baffoe-Bonnie to open his defence but his lawyer stated<br \/>\nthat they are entitled to a seven-day automatic stay to exercise their \u2018rights\u2019.\n<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\ncourt granted the request and subsequently called on Mathew Tetteh-Tevie to<br \/>\nopen his defence but his lawyer also told the court that he would need time to<br \/>\nprepare his client. <\/p>\n<p>Justice<br \/>\nKyei Barfuor then ordered Mr. Tetteh-Tevie to prepare to open his defence on<br \/>\nJuly 4, 2019. <\/p>\n<p>He also ordered the other accused persons to be prepared to open their defence in case Mr. Tetteh-Tevie fails to do so to avoid \u201canother needless adjournment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Gibril Abdul Razak<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baffoe Bonnie and Tetteh Tevie The judge in the case of some former Board Members of National Communications Authority (NCA), and a businessman accused of causing financial loss to the state has admonished defence lawyers to attach \u2018seriousness\u2019 to the defence of their clients. \u201cIn your defence of the accused persons, I\u2019ll urge you to 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